Centre for Ice and Climate – University of Copenhagen

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Centre for Ice and Climate is a
centre of excellence at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen. The
main activities of the centre are drilling and analysis of ice cores with the
objective of understanding climate change in the past in order to improve our
understanding of present and future climate change.
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The Centre has led the
international drilling projects GRIP, NGRIP, and NEEM that have led to
comprehensive investigations into the climate of the past 128,000 years,
corresponding to the most recent glacial-interglacial cycle. We also drill
ice cores in the Antarctic in cooperation with our partners, and in 2015 we
plan to drill through the Renland ice cap in East Greenland.

By performing measurements
on the ice cores, we have the opportunity to study how climate has changed,
and by measuring the air confined in the small bubbles of the ice, we reveal
changes in the composition of the past atmosphere. We use data from ice core
drillings as well as from radar observations to examine the ice sheet’s
anatomy and flow pattern, and by counting annual layers in the ice sheet we
can precisely date the ice.

Carlsberg Foundation supports a climate project with 4.5 million DKK grant, that will provide new knowledge about the mechanisms of the sudden climate change of the past, improving our ability to handle the risk of the future climate change.
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Jan Haerter from the Atmospheric Complexity Group at the Niels Bohr Institute receives an ERC Consolidator Grant of DKK 10 million for research on cloud-cloud interaction and for better understanding of the climate system.
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